« If you can manage to communicate some of these experiences in the first lesson, you are beginning to get some thinking and some understanding. Then the work you’re doing is not just a manipulation or a treatment. It is the start of a learning process. »
« Here’s the ideal picture: you are looking at it, and saying, « That’s how I want to be », but you are not going to do anything about it. »
« Lots of pupils wish the up to happen, but since they don’t really set much store on the wish, they will just do it a little bit, just to make sure, just to be on the safe side, they’ll introduce just a little bit of doing. »
« Alexander built his reputation in Australia on his ability to help people improve their breathing. Not to put too fine a point on it, he taught people to breathe, and he taught them to breathe better than anybody else in sight. »
« The only way you’ll get a releasing process is if you stop. This is the whole problem, because people can have hundreds of lessons and still not be taking the time to allow the release to happen. »
« If you can help people get the breathing functioning more freely, you will have done more to help them over their emotional and psychological hang-ups that could be done by anybody else working in any other way that I know. »
« The reasoned-out indirect approach may take many forms, but it is the constant principle upon which to work, and it will take you further than any end-gaining attempt. »
« It’s terribly easy to form a concept and imagine something and kid ourselves that we really know all about it and what it is like, when we can’t possibly know all about it until we’ve actually realized it. »
« You’ve got this ongoing flow of energy that is seeking to take you up against all the downward forces, and going up is what happens when you release the neck. »
« So much of our thinking, like so much of our movement, and so much of our life, tends to lack energy. »